“Today Show” (ZDF): Welke sends words of warning to the audience, sometimes without any jokes

Update May 9, 12:58 p.m.: How would today’s show continue in its first broadcast after the brutal attack, many asked. Moderator Oliver Welke only came shortly thereafter, followed by a program on a digital party convention, state aid for tax evaders, and Corona as an “excuse for everything,” a typical show today. Should it have been everything?

No, because at the end of the Broadcast brought cross the Abdelkarim Zemhoute For the study, much of what appears to have been planned was the conclusion of the conversation between the two. At the end of the show, Welke thanked the audience for the many good wishes and nailed down the attackers with his question: “Is it really consistent, regardless of the events that are allegedly compromised by the fundamental rights of all people ? Freedom of the press – in the true sense of the word – trample?

“Today Show”: ZDF presenter Abdelkarim talks about “war movie”

Update May 5, 5.41 p.m .: Abdelkarim, a satirical writer, experienced the attack on his ZDF camera crew in Berlin on Friday as a brutal war movie. When the 15 to 20 attackers rushed towards the team out of nowhere, he instinctively fled, but turned back soon after to acknowledge the situation, he told the German Press Agency on Tuesday: “It was like a really ugly war movie, a group of aggressive people who beat other defenseless people. Some were already on the ground. I’ve never seen anything like this, so cowardly, brutal and antisocial. I knew immediately that I had no chance to help in any way. “ Then he searched and alarmed the police.

If it was beforeDispute between the protesters and the team. It is still unclear. Abdelkarim said: “There are reports that protesters have had an argument with the team because they did not want to be filmed.” If there was such a dispute, definitely not in my presence. “He” had not heard any disputes throughout the filming. ”However, the team, meanwhile, has independently made some impressions of the demo. Police He did not comment on an alleged dispute Tuesday.

Attack on the heute show team in Berlin: exposed video shows brutal scenes

Update May 5, 3:10 p.m.: A video posted by Bild.de (behind the payment barrier) shows the scene of the attack on the program team today.

The photos on Bild.de are from one Security camerawhich diagonally above the Crime scene is appropriate Shows how attackers in black jackets are attacking television equipment lying on the ground. A bodyguard from the team lies a bit far, who is also visibly damaged.
The two attackers flee, two more. People in black jackets follow.

“Today’s program”: there may have been a dispute before the attack

Update May 5, 12.09 pm: How difficult it is to clarify the incident involving a team from ZDF show today now it shows a new detail that has not yet been confirmed. The Berlin Tagesspiegel writes about new information that should be available to the newspaper. Consequently, it should before the attack on Television equipment they had a dispute: the subsequent attackers could have expressed that they did not want to be filmed.

“Today’s Show”: suspects may belong to the left scene

Update May 4, 4:30 p.m.: Then Attack on a ZDF team on May 1 in Berlin Investigations are difficult. Clarification of the fact is “in view of the dynamics and confusion of what is happening” expensive Berlin police and prosecutor Monday with You can hear a lot of witnesses. The statements available so far “do not provide a consistent picture in all details,” he said.

Criminal police are now evaluating the attack. Photos or videos outside “You see images of the immediate crime, the crime scene” and the behavior of the perpetrators before and after the attack, he said.

Six suspects, who were arrested on Friday and released on Saturday, are “according to the police findings, partially attributable to the ‘left scene’.” “Whether this circumstance may have motivated the crime is currently under investigation.” An investigation is also underway into whether there was a connection between the crime and a nearby demonstration.

Berlin: attack on the “heute show” team – government spokesman Seibert finds drastic words

Update May 4, 1:10 p.m.: Government spokesman Steffen Seibert it has become brutal Attack on a “Today Show” team expressed “The federal government strongly condemns this act,” he emphasized at the federal press conference on Monday afternoon. Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) He expressed the attitude of the entire federal government on Sunday.

About Motives of the perpetrators. He couldn’t speak, Seibert said, police work had to provide more details. However, the government spokesperson emphasized who Attack journalists, stand “far from the basic democratic order” and literally trample on the freedom of the press.

Seehofer had previously stated that anyone who attacks journalists must “feel the power of our constitutional state”: “This is about the basic values ​​of our community.”

“Today’s Show”: Despite a brutal attack, all suspects released

Update 9:00 p.m.: After attacking one ZDF team the “Today’s show” The six arrested suspects are again free. This was announced by the Berlin Attorney General’s Office in the evening. There was no arrest warrant against the suspects: four of the detainees had no urgent suspicions, two had no reason to be detained.

According to the detainees, it should be Police They are four men of 24, 25 and 31 years old, and a woman of 25 and 27 years old. A spokesman for the prosecution declined to comment further on the possible history of the crime or the identity of the detainees. According to information from the German Press Agency, the suspects should be assigned to the left spectrum. However, this information has not yet been confirmed.

Berlin: “Today Show” team attacked after shooting on the street – the perpetrators are said to have been extremely brutal

The one with seven heads ZDF team had a demonstration against that on Friday afternoon Crown rules, which also included right-wing populists and supporters of conspiracy theories. On the way back to their vehicles, 20-25 hooded men were attacked, according to police. The team are said to have been beaten and kicked. A metal bar was also in use.

As the ZDF announced on Saturday, I was one of the wounded Editora Cameramana Assistant camera as well as three Security personnelwho accompanied the camera team. All six would have that Hospital He left on Friday, he told himself. Abdelkarim reporter, who was unhurt in the attack, thanked security guards, witnesses, police and paramedics for their help on Twitter on Saturday. “According to a security guard, we were lucky in misfortune. It could all have ended much more tragically,” he wrote.

He is also particularly surprised Harald Ortmann, CEO of TV United, the production company that provided the cameraman and sound assistant for filming. “They go to the team with blackjacks. Our sound assistant was kicked in the face, with a level of brutality that people accepted that a person would not survive,” he quotes. ZDF. “I used to work as a cameraman and have not seen him in over 30 years. In our country, parts of the population are dealing with the media in this way. I find it alarming.”

Attack on “Today’s Show” team: Police give drastic details, ZDF is shocked

Update 11.41 a.m.: The Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik He spoke on Saturday at the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) Inforadio of a total of six people arrested. With reference to the ongoing investigation, he declined to comment on the political background to the attack on Friday afternoon.

State security took over the investigation. According to the ZDF, the attack occurred during the filming of the satirical show “heute-show”. Five members of the team were attacked and wounded, the station in Mainz said.

According to the Berlin police chief, the team was suddenly attacked at 4:25 p.m. during a break in the shooting on Rochstrasse in the Mitte district. ZDF employees are from a group of up to 20 masked people been attacked Slowik spoke of a “really funky attack”. ZDF employees were massively beaten, several injuries had to be treated in the hospital, one person entered the hospital.

Berlin: 15 people beat the “Today Show” team at the clinic – ZDF with drastic words, Maas surprised

Update from 9.45 a.m.: Chancellor Heiko Maas is shocked and has warm words ready for the ZDF team: “I wish the team show todaywho was attacked in a terrifying way today, to recover soon. We are by your side! Don’t let your humor and passion be taken away from violent and cowardly criminals. “

Update May 2, 8:56 a.m.: After the violent violent attack by a group of 15 in the Team of the ZDF “Today Show” in Berlin The president of the German Association of Journalists, Frank Überall, is outraged: “It was a cowardly and unjustifiable attack on the journalists who made their report. I hope that the attack will be fully investigated and that those responsible are legally responsible.”

It is one Attack on press freedom.. ZDF had previously had a similar program director Norbert Himmler condemned the attack. “Press freedom is a great asset, especially these days. However, our concern now is first and foremost for team members and their health.”

The editorial boards of ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio also responded in a message. “Our teams of reporters are on the move around the world to inform people about events and developments. Satirical programs like Today’s Show are also part of the mission of forming opinions,” they clarified. The federal director of the dju journalists union, Cornelia Berger, spoke of the attack as “an alarm signal for policy makers.”

Update 10:05 p.m.: Now the ZDF “Today Show” has reacted to the attack in Berlin. Shortly before the show aired at 10.15 p.m., the editorial team posted via Instagram: “Our camera crew was attacked during a shoot in Berlin today. Several team members are in the hospital, our reporter Abdelkarim is unharmed. We are very affected and wish our colleagues a speedy recovery. ”

It also says: “We only received this message after recording today’s broadcast.“Then Oliver Welke will not take a position on the incident.

Berlin: the group attacks the ZDF team of the “heute show”: five injured, four in hospital

First report of May 1:

Berlin – In the capital, the police have prepared intensively for the May Day protests. With a large contingent of 5,000 men they moved. * But already in the afternoon there was a bitter incident in Berlin.

A team of cameramen from ZDF was near the Alexanderplatz in the district Berlin–Means, medium attacked by a group of 15 people. The police report. According to the announcer, it was a satire broadcast crew. “Today’s show”.

According to police, five people from the team of seven were injured. A police spokeswoman also denounced four people who, according to initial findings, had to be hospitalized after being injured.

“Today show”: ZDF team attacked in Berlin – police arrest six people

Police said they arrested five men and a woman as suspects in the immediate vicinity of the crime.

According to ZDF, the team was heading to their vehicles after filming. Then the group was attacked. No further details are known about the attack. Police are investigating the background.

ZDF program director Norbert Himmler condemns the attack. “Freedom of the press is a great asset, especially these days”Himmler said. “However, our concern now is first and foremost for the team members and their health.”

May 1 in Berlin: police in constant use – attack on the “Today Show” team

Due to the planned demonstrations for May 1, which were announced despite the ban in view of the Corona * restrictions, the police in Berlin are in great action. It is not known if the attack on the television team is related to the protests. However, these take place mainly in other parts of the city. At night, about 1,000 people gathered in Kreuzberg. Radicals from the left and the left had called protests there on the Internet. Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) had announced that unauthorized protests and large gatherings would be quickly dissolved.

In Munich there was a violent mass fight on the night of May 1, as reported by tz.de *.

Dieter Nuhr (ARD): Twitter users are upset by the comedian. Draw bland comparisons from Angela Merkel and Christian Drosten.

Police control has been intensified at NRW. An officer was seriously wounded by gunfire. In Berlin, however, a team of ARD cameras was attacked. The transmitter took a clear position.

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